COCONUT CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

COCONUT CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, an intimate elementary-level community in COCONUT CREEK, Florida, overseen by BROWARD, serves 467 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 604 students each, so COCONUT CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 23% below that benchmark.

COCONUT CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 325 schools operated by BROWARD, a district that instructs 243,591 students overall.

In terms of who attends, COCONUT CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that the largest single group is Black at 46%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 25% Hispanic, 24% White, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Broward County as a whole is about 28% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. An estimated 48% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Broward County (around 38%), the school's rate is north of typical.

With demographic context factored in, COCONUT CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 56.9%, the actual is 53.0%, a residual of -3.9 points.

In the broader community, census data for Broward County shows median household income runs about $77,633, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. COCONUT CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 338 public schools in Broward County (combined enrollment of about 244,502 students).

DAVE THOMAS EDUCATION CENTER WEST is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts COCONUT CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 2nd of 4; the average score across the group is 61.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Over the past 7-year window. COCONUT CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has edged down 29% since 2018, when it stood at 658 (now 467). The White share of enrollment declined from 31% to 24% over that span. Class-load math has grew: from 14.3:1 in 2018 to 15.6:1 in 2025.

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